Covid-19 (Coronavirus) | A Philosophical Understanding Of Events Helps Us To Understand The Meaning Of Life And The Purpose Of Existence

Covid-19 (Coronavirus) | A Philosophical Understanding Of Events Helps Us To Understand The Meaning Of Life And The Purpose Of Existence

By: Dr. M. Kamran Amiri

And The Living Legend

Ahmad Javed Kamran Amiri

Dated: Wednesday 15^th April 2020

A philosophical understanding of events helps us to understand the meaning of life and the purpose of existence.

During Corona's or Covid-19 illness, many philosophical teachings have been re-examined and new questions raised.

An important feature of this situation is the entry of man into the circle of understanding the power of science.

It is reminiscent of the neglect of human pain and suffering, the uniqueness and domination of formal rationality over the dimensions of modern life.

Sickness can be placed within evil, pain and suffering, like all evil that has pervaded the world, but Corona's disease, in addition to physical and mental suffering, has also shown epistemological suffering.

The sorrows and worries that today's human beings have due to the pervasiveness of the Corona Pandemic outbreak crisis are different from many other events.

Corona has, in fact, transformed the human biosphere and its epistemological foundations, changing the way we look at the power of science.

Today's man, proud of the achievements of formal rationality and technological advances, imagined that he could overcome anything, as Hegel claimed in his book Elements of the Philosophy of Truth: "Man has become dominant in nature and the world, and a new intellect." Mankind has been able to control man's domination of the world, "he said, but with Corona's arrival, the idea is changing.

Thus, Corona is not only a disease, but also an event that shows us the most basic human bottlenecks and will lead to a re-understanding of human life, systems of thought, systems of power, theories of knowledge, and regimes of truth.

Thinkers can not only think about the physical and mental pain and suffering in this difficult period, but also about the mental suffering that human beings have been suffering from before and have not been aware of.

When Heidegger presented the famous "Question of Technology" article, he addressed two key issues:

1. Will technology and science be imposed on us? Will it take us away from our basic instincts and our lives?

2. Can human beings overcome and prevent this breakthrough that technology has found?

There is hope in the view of existential philosophers, and that is the return of man to his fundamental understanding.

The current situation is due to the fact that man has neglected to strengthen the foundations of reason. "Seeking help from reason" forces us to reconstruct the place of morality in human relations in the process of this endeavor, so that in addition to worrying about our own safety, we are "closer and kinder" to the "other." Alexander Pushkin is mentioned. He wrote poetry as a quarantine for cholera:

We seek the help from the wisdom

We treat disease with the power of knowledge

And a time of difficult experiences

We leave behind a family

We will become more refined and wiser

We do not give in to darkness and fear

Rather, we breathe new life into each other

We will get closer and kinder

Therefore, if this disease can be a punishment for us, it will make us wiser, wiser and more spiritually kind.

Although corona disease strengthens nationalism and increases the role of governments, it also creates the tendency for human beings to experience a revision of the image of reason.

Understanding reason again gives people the opportunity to understand that others and their lives are so valuable that they are closely linked to their lives.  

If in the pre-Cretaceous period the standard of living was calculated by the profitability of technology and the domination of nature, the post-Cretaceous period would undoubtedly offer a new idea, and that is a new understanding of happiness that would be possible in an understanding of rationality and spirituality.

It is based on both science and anti-science, and is aimed at deepening and expanding knowledge and mysticism to prevent environmental degradation, deforestation, disruption of natural plant and animal ecosystems, industrial and productive pollution, and water and air pollution.

And creates the earth. That's why the main message of the post-Craconian era will be:

Let's not destroy the environment so that humanity can live better and more.